Bub Carrington, guard of the Washington Wizards, talked about last season in an interview with WUSA9. “We haven’t been told to be the best version of ourselves. We were held back because we were trying to get AJ Dybantsa. That’s no secret,” he said, according to BasketNews.
According to Sam Amick of The Athletic, the NBA will not sanction the player or the team, based on the information available.
I went back through my folder. A scoresheet has six columns. Points, fouls, timeouts, the rest. There is no “held back” column. When a team loses, I write down the score. I don’t write why. Nobody has ever asked me to tick “on purpose.”
The Wizards haven’t won more than twenty games in any of the last three seasons. Three seasons is a lot of sheets signed by both captains. And afterwards, nobody goes back to them. The player answered a question. He said what he knew. At the table, that’s called an accurate statement.
This year, Trae Young and Anthony Davis arrived in trades, and BasketNews sees the Wizards as possible playoff outsiders in the East. AJ Dybantsa came out as the number one pick of a very strong draft. So the plan had a name. I don’t know where it was written down. Me, I’d have put it in the margin, in red pen.
Noted: confession heard, no sanction, no such column. It’s on the sheet.
It’s true, we checked: BasketNews.
